Cruz says Iran could set off Electro Magnetic Pulse over east coast, killing 10s of millions

Ted Cruz hosted a roundtable on the Iran deal yesterday. Video below. He says the Iranian deal is “catastrophic” because it will fund terrorism and allow Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon. He must be auditioning for Sheldon Adelson’s money. Cruz said:

I agree with Prime Minister Netanyahu that the threat of a nuclear Iran is an existential threat to the state of Israel… The odds are unacceptably high they would use those nuclear weapons in the skies of Tel Aviv or New York or Los Angeles. But the threat that is posed to the United States of America is even qualitatively greater.

The single greatest threat if Iran acquired even a single nuclear weapon would be that they would place that weapon on a rocket on a ship anywhere up and down the Atlantic and they would fire that rocket straight into the air into the atmosphere and if it got high enough and they could detonate a nuclear war head, it would set off what’s called an Electro Magnetic Pulse, an EMP. An EMP would take down the electrical grid of the entire eastern seaboard.

The EMP would shut down the stock market and all financial systems, shut down delivery of food, water, heat, air, and basic transportation, Cruz said.

The projections are that an EMP over the eastern seaboard would cost the lives of tens of millions of Americans. And they don’t need targeting equipment… They need to fire straight in the air.

Scott Roth on twitter: “I remind you, ladies and gentlemen, that Ted Cruz is a product of Princeton and Harvard Law.”

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one might also be concerned that they could ride over America
on their fire breathing dragons …. if they had fire breathing dragons that is
everyone knows Iran wants fire breathing dragons it’s just a matter of time
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|| michelle: one might also be concerned that they could ride over America
on their fire breathing dragons …. if they had fire breathing dragons that is
everyone knows Iran wants fire breathing dragons it’s just a matter of time … ||

“The single greatest threat if Iran acquired even a single nuclear weapon would be that they would place that weapon on a rocket on a ship anywhere up and down the Atlantic and they would fire that rocket straight into the air into the atmosphere and if it got high enough and they could detonate a nuclear war head, – See more at: http://mondoweiss.net/2015/07/threatens-resulting-genocide#sthash.xgAR5i95.dpuf”

RE: Ted Cruz hosted a roundtable on the Iran deal yesterday. Video below. He says the Iranian deal is “catastrophic” because it will fund terrorism and allow Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon. He must be auditioning for Sheldon Adelson’s money. ~ Weiss

Very painful to watch. Checking new today I have seen this heart-rendering video of a neurologically impaired bulldog trying to find a comfortable position by climbing a chair and climbing down, with much tribulations and derisive chortling of the person holding the camera.

Exactly.
That is when I finally -got it-.
All the ‘experts’ were Israeli, Jewish, neo-con, ex-military, etc….and they gave both the imperialist pov and the Arab pov…yet, there were precious few actual Arabs even allowed to speak…unless they represented a royal house.

Ted Cruz: … The single greatest threat if Iran acquired even a single nuclear weapon would be that they would place that weapon on a rocket on a ship anywhere up and down the Atlantic and they would fire that rocket straight into the air into the atmosphere and if it got high enough and they could detonate a nuclear war head, it would set off what’s called an Electro Magnetic Pulse, an EMP. An EMP would take down the electrical grid of the entire eastern seaboard. …

I thought the single greatest threat if Iran acquired even a single nuclear weapon was that they would wipe Israel off the map and push it into the sea. Since when is Zio-supremacist-bootlicker Cruz more concerned about the U.S. than he is about Israel? Why does he hate Jews so much?!

“The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly Saddam can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.”
Condoleezza Rice

“Our task, your task… is to try to connect the dots before something happens. People say, ‘Well, where’s the smoking gun?’ Well, we don’t want to see a smoking gun from a weapon of mass destruction.”
Donald Rumsfeld

“I can’t tell you if the use of force in Iraq today will last five days, five weeks or five months, but it won’t last any longer than that.”
Donald Rumsfeld

I really wonder if Cruz has taken courses @ the Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu School for Idiotic Hasbara & Cartoons and attended one of Gary Ginsberg’s evening seminars in ‘music’.

This is serious stuff from Cruz, and no one should mock him, back in the 1930’s Flash Gordon’s archenemy Ming the Merciless had concocted a new weapon: a death ray emanating from Mars that wrought havoc on the Earth. To stop the ray, Flash[Buster Crabbe] had to travel to Mars and lock horns with Ming. Better to fight them over there [Mars] than here. Watch out for those Iranian rockets to Mars.

i can’t stop laughing. so which gop prez candidate is going to top this to get adelson $ and how’s he gonna do it! to think with grinch is was just ‘there are no palestinians’ — we’ve come a long way baby!

I think that one can trace that information. For example, a renown expert on terrorism and demography, Steven Emerson, told that it is difficult for non-Muslim minority of Burningham (England, not Alabama) to survive. The origin of that misinformation were earlier alarmist stories that this city in English Midlands will have Muslim majority at some point in the future, so Emerson made an honest mistake that this already happened. And given the degree of danger he expects in cities with Muslim majority he did not dare to check in person (even a websearch “Birningham” could prove perilous).

In this particular case, there were science fiction novels with that theme, electromagnetic pulse knocking out almost everything in the eastern part of USA, but owing to the desire of some scientific plausibility, the size of the explosion was 500 megatons, and the explosion happened because an alien space ship was destroyed. When Tsar Bomba, with 50 megaton power, was detonated in Arctic, radio communication over a very large area was out for nearly an hour, and some scientist made projections what would be effects of such an explosion, and even more powerful explosions. However, loading something like Tsar Bomba onto a missile is conceivable, but USA will not be capable of launching such a load for at least 10 years, and of course this is totally out of the league of non-superpowers.

The infrastructure in USA was mostly build in Cold War years when the effects of thermonuclear bombs were considered, so it is hard to see than transformers etc. are vulnerable at large distances. Additionally, equipment is supposed to tolerate lightning strikes. Additionally, Iran could conceivably load a bomb on a ship, but launching a ship into the air does not occur in SF novels, but in Fantasy — the same section in bookstores, so that could confuse our Senator.

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we pay these people to better our lives and the lives of those around us
instead we get stories of boogy men/monsters comming for us that must
be destroyed before they destroy us
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it seems like the boogy man is usually the one telling the story
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G-d Bless
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Upon careful reading, Cruz should be decried as anti-Semite, or one of those gentiles who try to spread Hasbara but have terrible time understanding the message that they try to spread.

Here you have the Senator belittling the (potential) suffering of Israel that is about to be brusquely loaded by Obama into the Iranian oven, [so far so good, I mean, he delivers correct lines], and then adding that American suffering would be even greater (a suffering larger than Jewish suffering?!?? I dare you to show me what is it exactly, you almost anti-Semitic moron!!!) because … because … because they could have a power blackout!

Excuse me, Senator. As a Canadian import you may be excused to be ignorant, but your constituents survived quite a bit of worse in Alamo. As a denizen of the Eastern Seaboard I have experienced a blackout that covered a major part of NY state. My family was on vacation trip, and luck had it that we had full camping gear, so we could make tea, cook dinner and wait until gas stations would become operational. But do you think that less prepared citizenry was dying in droves? Nothing of the kind.

Finally, consider the worst case scenario, some people actually dying on the Eastern Seaboard because of long blackout, ineptitude, lack of guns (hungry? why not shooting some squirrels?), in general, being effete liberals, recent studies revealed that those are not REAL AMERICANS (some are even Jews), unlike honest folk in the South, Midwest and so on. Again, something not known to a Canadian carpetbagger.

A country that is labelled a “democracy” relies on an informed electorate as a precondition for an enlightened government. After hearing this silly diatribe by this charlatan, and noting that Louis Gohmert is sitting beside said charlatan, I fear that our Democracy is a sham. The world wide massive demonstrations in the wake of the Iraq war did not stop the momentum for war. The Iran debate highlites the efforts of one such group–AIPAC which represents the interest of Israel, inserting its interest before the interests of the U,S. Why can’t our misinformed electorate see this?

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